Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Propaganda post, assignment 3



This video is propaganda for several different reasons. First and foremost, the purpose of the video is to manipulate the audience into thinking that anything beside christian ideologies are incorrect. In fact, the man in the video goes to a Barnes and Noble and shows how a book with theories about evolution and life are somehow in the biology section. This guy is making it out like the fact that these books are in that section is total and complete blasphemy. Even though he is probably correct and is talking about an interesting subject manner it is still a form of propaganda. His tone and attitudes toward the placement of the book are propaganda in unto themselves. It is cleverly done, because it is in fact supposed to not seem like propaganda even though it is.

This video has over 110,000 views so i would say it is on the cusp of being viral, not quite. It probably became popular because it is interesting and because the user that put the video up has a good repore and several other videso. People probably like looking at his stuff, we'll see if it actually becomes viral within the next few months, if not i think it will probably die down.

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